Examples of “maid” in a Sentence

noun A woman employed to clean a house or do domestic work.

• The hotel maid knocked to ask if the room needed cleaning.
• The maid changed the sheets and tidied the bedroom every morning.
• A maid from the big house carried the washing down to the stream.

noun (literary or old-fashioned) A young unmarried woman or girl.

• In the old tale, a maid waits by the tower window for her rescuer.
• The ballad tells of a fair maid who sang beside the river.
• The knight bowed to the young maid and asked for her name.